Label-pasting device.



W. SUTTON.

LABEL PASTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23,1910.

971,800, Patented 0011.4, 1910.

UNITED sT-irrnsrATEntr OFFICE- WALTER EUITON, 01 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.

LABEL-PASTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 4:, 1,910.

- Application filed May 23, 1910. Serial No. 562,925.

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALT Sorrow, citr- Zen of the United States, residing at Sacramento, in the county of Sacramento and State of Cali'lorniafhave invented new and useful Improvements in LabeLPasting Devices, of which the following a specifies.- tion. i

This invention relates to a label-pasting device and particularly pertains to an apparatus for distributing paste or other adhesive substance on the backs of labels, wrappers and sheet n'ialerial in genernl,

Itis the object of this invention to vide a label-pasting deviee-by the use of which paste orthe like may be evenly and thoroughly distributed on the backs of. labels and which resigned to take the place of the ordinaryn'rethod of a )plying paste to lab *ls with a brush by ham The device is so onstrucled and arranged that labels can be pasted at great speed and more rapidly than by the brush method now in use thus enabling the operator to label. "many more .articles n a given time than is possible Where a brush and paste pot are employed.

A. further object is to provide a label-pesting device Which is particularly adapted for use in listing labels or wrappers-such are applie' to till fru1t.e:1ns in n rich but :2 small portion nit-he end oft the label is coated with paste, and where it of great importancethat the paste be properly applied so that none of it will come. in Contact with the tin cans, and thereby cause them to rust.

The invention consists of the parts and thecdntruction and con'ibination of parts as hereinafter more fully described and -c]aimed, hav1ng reference to the accompany ing drawings, nu Which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention. -Fig. 2 is a vertical section of same, showing the manner of delivering the paste to the end of a label. Fig. 3 is a detail of a guide flange.

In the drawings A rep-resents a. horizontal base plate which may be rigidl secured in a table or Work bench or be left. freelo be moved from oneplaoe to another. The ends of the plate A are turned down at '2? to form legs by which the plate is supported clear of the surface on which itrests. One end of the base plate A is provided W:1tl1.. fl vertically disposed guide frame which is here shown as formed of a. sheet of material secured to the top of the plate A. extending aerossllie end and a short distance along each side of the plate. The cnclsiof this vertical plateternnnate on the same plane and are bent at right angles to form outwardly G0 projecting flanges 4. A. rertically slidable plate or carriage 5 is disposed laterally across the base plate A and. is mounted onthe guide frame in such manner as to be moved up and down thereon. I have shown the carriage plate 5 as having its side edges bent back and turned in such manner as to form grooves G which are adapted to engage the guide flanges 4 to retain the Carriage. plate 5 in a rertieal position and permit of slidable movementon this flanges l. A. hand-hold Y is pri'n'ided on the "carriage plated, by means of which the latter may be conveniently lifted upward on its guide frame. topic 8 in the form of a hopper is secured to the back of the carriage plate 5. This hopper is designed to be of approximately the same width the label to be pasted and may be rigidly secured to the carriage plate 5, 01380 may be detae'hably mounted thereon so that pastecontaining hoppers of various vl'idths may be mounted on the one carriage pl-ilte 5 as desired. The lower end of thepa ste container is open to form a feed or disohhrge 8!} opening 9. A feed or distributing roller 10 18 disposed aeross-the mouth of the opening 9 and is revolubly supported in the sides of the hopper 8, the under side of the roller 10 extending below the bottom edge of the hopper 8 and the earrings plate 5.

The labels 11 to be past ed are placed face down on the base plate A with their end portions on which the pastels to be applied projecting the required distance under the 9 carriage 5 and hopper 8 with the distributing roller 10 resting on the top or-upperinost label 11. The labels 11 are stacked on. the base plate A. in any desired quantity, the

depth of the stack being limited only by the height of the guide frame 3 and flanges l. As a. means of retaining the stack of labels in even-alinement and to gage the extent of pasted surface on the ends of the labels, I

provide an adjustable follower block 12 which abuts against the free ends of the labels 11 and keeps them in an even stack. This follolver block or abutment plate 12 is provided Witli'a flange'lS which bears upon the upper surface of the base plate A, and

through which extends a threaded stud 14 Slideble in ii slot 15 in the plate A. The

In this case Q5 it pasteeontainer or r'oep- 76 iilel;

nut 17 on its upper end permits of the flange 13 being clamped tight to the base plate A and securely held againstmover'nent. In operation, a stack of labels 11 are placed face downward on the base plate A andtheabutnient plate 12 set in such p0si-- o'n 0n theplate A as to stack the labels 1 1, iltih the desired length of surface to be aLte-d extending under the carriage plate and roller 10 on the hopper 8. The paste- 15 Ho tai'ner or hopper 8 is filled with any suitab e adhesive mixture, such, for instance, as

j E ,co mmon flour or starch paste of a proper c,o.nsistency. A label 11, on being lifted from the stack and Withdrawn from under the "carriage 5, rotates the roller 10 which, by reason of being in contact with the paste in the hopper 8, causes such 'uantity of paste as adheres to'its upper sur ace'to be transferred to the end of the label .11. In this 5 manner the uppermost labelll is always. in'

readiness to be pasted and the speed with which each succeeding label may be pasted is limited only by the speedwith which they can be successively Withdrawn from under the paste-feeding and distributing roller 10. If it is desired to paste a label nearly its. full-length, the end Wall of the plate 3 may be cut away or dispensed with and the base. plate A elongated, so that but a short portion of the label 11 Will extend in front of the carriagev plate 5. On' withdrawin the label from under the plate 5 paste Wlll be evenly distributed over the 1' ,mainder of the surface of the label by the feed roller 10.- 40

Having thus described my invention, ,what I claim and desire to secure by Letters- Patent, is--.

1. A label-pastingdevice, said device'consisting of a label support having a vertical guide frame at one end having a part explying paste to the labels, said receptace having acarriage plate, the said edges of which ,sliclably' engage the corresponding edges of the parallel sides of the guide frame whereby the paste receptacle may vertically move in said frame, and an abutment plate toward andfrom the paste receptacle.

2.-A label-pasting device, consisting of a support for the labels, saidsupport having at one end a guide frame WlllOh extends across said end and is provided with parallel. sides extending for a portion of the distance along the side edges of the support,

at the other end of the support adjustable said guideframe being open at one-side and at the top, a paste receptacle mounted in the top and open side of the guide frame, a carriage plate fixed to the paste receptacle having its ends extending beyond the sides of said receptacle, the adjacent edges of the carriage plate and the edges of the parallel sides of the guide frame being fashioned to engage and formguides for the carriage plate, a roller mounted in the discharge, end of the paste receptacle and beneath which labels projecting into the portion of the open front of the guide frame below the paste receptacle, and afollower block ad justably mounted on the opposite end of the support having its edges bent .to embrace the corresponding edges of the labels.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. h

- WALTER SUTTON.

Witnesses: v 'F. J. LEnMoNEL', E. P. HAMMOND.

roller the labels are passed, the ends of the 

